Mining CRAN DESCRIPTION Files
A couple of weeks ago, I saw on Dirk Eddelbuettel’s blog that R 3.4.0 was going to include a function for obtaining information about packages currently on CRAN, including basically...continue reading.
A couple of weeks ago, I saw on Dirk Eddelbuettel’s blog that R 3.4.0 was going to include a function for obtaining information about packages currently on CRAN, including basically...continue reading.
Today is the one year anniversary of the janeaustenr package’s appearance on CRAN, its cranniversary, if you will. I think it’s time for more Jane Austen here on my blog....continue reading.
Like I mentioned in my last blog post, I am contributing to a session at userR 2017 this coming July that will focus on discovering and learning about R packages....continue reading.
I am one of the organizers for a session at userR 2017 this coming July that will focus on discovering and learning about R packages. How do R users find...continue reading.
Note: Cross-posted with the Stack Overflow blog. Check out the code for this analysis on Kaggle. For me, the weekends are mostly about spending time with my family, reading for...continue reading.
Note: Cross-posted with the Stack Overflow blog The 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey opened last week, and we on the Data Team are looking forward to analyzing the survey results...continue reading.
I spoke on approaching text mining tasks using tidy data principles at rstudio::conf yesterday. I was so happy to have the opportunity to speak and the conference has been a...continue reading.
It’s been about a month since the U.S. presidential election, with Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton coming as a surprise to most. Reddit user Jason Baumgartner collected and published...continue reading.
In learning more about text mining over the past several months, one aspect of text that I’ve been interested in is readability. A text’s readability measures how hard or easy...continue reading.
My adopted home state of Utah has been a weird place this election cycle. For the unfamiliar, Utah is extremely conservative when it comes to politics; it is one of...continue reading.
I am so pleased to announce that tidytext 0.1.2 is now available on CRAN. This release of tidytext, a package for text mining using tidy data principles by Dave Robinson...continue reading.
Today I’m giving a talk for the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utah about careers outside academia for astronomers and physicists. Check out my slides here,...continue reading.
Earlier this week, I published a post about song lyrics and how different U.S. states are mentioned at different rates, and at different rates relative to their populations. That was...continue reading.
The inspiration for this post is a joint venture by both me and my husband, and its genesis lies more than 15 years in our past. One of the recurring...continue reading.
I saw this tweet making the rounds this past week. Half of all Americans live in the red counties, half live in the orange counties pic.twitter.com/ptBXNbzSFQ— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) August...continue reading.
Today I was so pleased to see a new data package hit CRAN, and how wonderful to see such accomplished women writing R packages. What a great new data package...continue reading.
Almost six months ago (!) I wrote a blog post about the NEISS data set, a sample of accidents reported to emergency rooms in the U.S. that are related to...continue reading.
I have been full of grief and sadness and some anger in the wake of yet more videos going viral in the past couple days showing black men being killed...continue reading.
At the end of last week, Dave Robinson and I released a new version of tidytext on CRAN, our R package for text mining using tidy data principles. You can...continue reading.
Have you seen all those attractive green badges on other people’s R packages and thought, “I want a lovely green badge!” Always a nice feeling when Travis manages to actually...continue reading.